As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams . In a distributed team communication shrinks to the basics (egg yellow :). Tags: Changing workplace Digital traces Agile distributed teams informal communicatio One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else. I

Distributed Community Manifestoes Technology Web 2. Following last month's release of the iPhone 3G , along with the launch of the App Store , and what Brian Fling called the " first true Mobile 2.0 ," everyone around here is talking about the emergence of the mobile device as a critical facet of web strategy. My colleague Anders Rosenquist, who is seriously deep on mobile, presented a first take on the company point of view on mobile strategy at a recent meeting; another colleague, Justin Marshall , is knee-deep in an iPhone app; and in general things are just all abuzz about mobile.

Distributed Community Manifestoes Web 2. As you can probably tell, I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek with the title of this post, just for the sake of provocation. But I actually do have a theory about how to design great mobile apps. I've been floating the idea with colleagues lately, and it's been producing great results: Strongly opinionated responses, for and against!

Tags: Analytics & ROI Distributed Community Identity Manifestoes Metadat As an information architect, I work with metadata a lot. I help define interfaces based on information about the content. For example, an object on a home page might be the "newest" object in a system, or it might be a rotating series of "newest"

With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case , but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think. Now to the distributed Agile teams . This picture is not that far from what you can learn by reading about the challenges of distributed Agile and solutions to address them, but hopefully This one is a bit scary since I picked up some ideas from linguistics without having a proper reading of the work behind it, but at times this is the price to pay* for sitting between research and practice. So, the picture on the right is a simplified version of the work of Herbert H.

Commentary on various ways of distributed group decision making with a focus on online and technology supported aspects ...Tags: Tags: technologyforcommunity community consensus decision-makin

I was reading Clay Shirky’s book "Here Comes Everybody" over the weekend, and came across another version of his great analysis in measuring participation distribution in social systems. Rather than a Gaussian Bell Curve, a more precise model is used based on a Power Law Distribution . In a pure power law distribution, the gap between the first and It plays on the concept of Pareto’s principle of 80% of the work/people comes from 20% of the work/people, and also the participation inequality description from the 90-9-1 principle . Basically,

Some group systems are owned and centrally controlled by one member who made an account Distributed course landscape case 3 course moodle ...Tags: I have been busy writing the descriptions of three iCamp cases and looking back of what was actually important, what we can bring at the more general level. Previously i have not been thinking enough of the phenomenon what i would name ‘blind space’.

The above comes from a great 38-page overview essay by Kevin Carson where he reviews current trends to more distributed manufacturing, often based on open source design, as well as a new type of machinery. * solution to these dilemmas is modularization around common architectural platforms in order to compartmentalize and distribute development cost risks, the result being ‘ecologies’ of many small companies independently and competitively developing intercompatible parts for common product platforms —such as the IBM PC. The conditions of physical production have, in fact, experienced a transformation almost as great as that which digital technology has brought about on immaterial production.

First, a bit of the context: we are working on a project helping distributed Agile teams to identify challenges they have to deal with and to find solutions for them. And, while my research is pretty much about technology-mediated ways of working, research on distributed teams is not at the core of it. From one side, this makes the whole exercise of figuring out how Agile can work in a distributed team pretty Also, as much as I would like to make it a proper research project (with in-depth state-of-the-art review, large scale data collection and time to process all that), it is more of a research-based consulting: we observe a bit, interview some people, scratch the surface of what had been said on it and hope that our research backgrounds would help to fill in the gaps to come back with useful insights.